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The Argentinian writer Tomás Eloy Martínez, who has died aged 75 of cancer, was one of the most innovative journalists and novelists of his generation. He belonged to the group of writers who renewed Argentinian journalism in the early 1970s, challenging authority as well as freeing it from old-fashioned rhetorical formulas. Forced into exile after the 1976 military coup, Eloy ­Martínez took his skills to Venezuela, where he founded a groundbreaking newspaper.

Read more: Guardian.co.uk

Tomás Eloy Martínez in our library:

   El cantor de tango / Tomás Eloy Martínez. — 1 ed. — Barcelona
: Planeta, 2004. — 251 p. ; 24 cm. — ((Autores españoles e
iberoamericanos))
   D.L.  M 17338-2004. — ISBN 84-08-05299-3
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   Santa Evita / Tomás Eloy Martínez; translated by Helen Lane. —
[S. l.] : Anchor, 1997. — 410 p. ; 20 cm
   ISBN1-86230-002-X
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   El vuelo de la reina / Tomás Eloy Martínez. — Madrid :
Alfaguara, 2002. — 296 p. ; 24 cm
   Premio Alfaguara de novela 2002
   ISBN84-204-6423-6
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